First Friday Webinars – Courier-oriented route optimization for last-mile delivery at Deutsche Post
OnlineTraditional last-mile delivery planning purely based on optimization methods often lacks important real-life aspects and thus does not satisfy relevant operational requirements. Only experienced couriers have tacit knowledge about the […]
First Friday Webinars – Why puzzles are very interesting for OR consulting?
OnlinePresented by Alex Fleischer, Optimization Expert (IBM) When trying to solve puzzles, practitioners train themselves on OR techniques (and other techniques). Puzzles are good ways for large and small companies […]
First Friday Webinars – How BT is using OR to make sustainable impact in resource management
OnlinePresented by Dr. Anne Liret, Research Manager (British Telecommunications) In the face of the climate emergency, several measures are being taken to move to more sustainable sources of energy. The […]
First Friday Webinars – Optimisation for airports – London Heathrow
OnlineDr Jason Atkin is a member of the Computational Optimisation and Learning lab in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He has been working with NATS […]
Comparing services: why hospitals should call
About the speaker: Ger Koole is full professor of business analytics and optimization at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also founder and lead scientist of the call center workforce management […]
Using prescriptive models for decision support in the planning and budgeting of infrastructure investments in Health – Use cases from Timor Leste and Vietnam
The Geospatial Planning & Budgeting Platform is being developed by researchers and practitioners from Analytics for a Better World Institute in close collaboration with World Bank. These digital decision-support interfaces […]
Making an Impact at EURO 2022
EURO 2022 Espoo, Finland 32nd EURO Conference will be held in Espoo, Finland, in Aalto University. Aalto University, founded in the merger of three universities in 2010, has long traditions […]
OR for policy evaluation: Evaluating public transport by multimodal schedule-based routing
This seminar presents ongoing work on a joint project to develop a multimodal schedule-based routing application. This application is motivated by the necessity of transport policymakers to evaluate the potential […]
Libra: EMC Platform for Exchange of Electricity Reserves
About this event Libra is the European platform for the activation and exchange of electricity reserves. The platform is used to select reserve offers for activation on replacement reserve (RR) […]
Smart Truck Drayage Dispatching: From port-IO to driveMybox
About this event Truck drayage is essential to link locations and logistics nodes in the port and hinterland. In the Port of Hamburg, for example, about 90% of inter-terminal transports […]